Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe

De Hoge Veluwe National Park
Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe
IUCN category II (national park)
Map of the national park
Location	Gelderland, Netherlands
Nearest city	Arnhem
Coordinates	52°5′N 5°48′E / 52.083°N 5.800°E / 52.083; 5.800Coordinates: 52°5′N 5°48′E / 52.083°N 5.800°E / 52.083; 5.800
Area	55 km2 (21 sq mi)
Established	1935
Governing body	Stichting Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe
www.hogeveluwe.nl

Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe (English: The Hoge Veluwe National Park) is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately 55 square kilometers in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands. It is situated in the Veluwe, the area of the largest terminal moraine in the Netherlands. Most of the landscape of the park and the Veluwe was created during the last Ice Age. The alternating sand dune areas and heathlands may have been caused by human utilization of the surrounding lands. The park forms one of the largest continuous nature reserves in the Netherlands.

The park was established by the businessman Anton Kröller and his wife Helene Kröller-Müller as an private estate in 1909. Up until 1923 the park was under construction with wildlife being imported and the building of the hunting lodge and fences. The hunting residence is called St. Hubertus Hunting Lodge after St. Hubertus and was designed by prominent Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Helene Kröller-Müller was an art collector and work had begun on a museum inside the park.

Due to worsening economic conditions the building of the museum was halted and the couple found themselves unable to keep the estate. In 1935 the art collection was donated to the State of the Netherlands, which then continued to build the Kröller-Müller Museum. The park was handed over to a foundation, which received a loan from the State. At that time the estate became the second national park in the Netherlands. The park is still one of the two private owned national parks in the Netherlands, but the only one that asks an entrance fee.